News around the Muslim World on Friday 26 December 2014

The organisation had asked the Ahmadi residents of Rabwah to immediately remove Quranic verses and the Islamic references from all Ahmadi buildings. The organisation said it would be forced to take unilateral action if the community failed to follow its diktat. Provocative material against the community has been in circulation for two weeks. 

More persecution of minorities.

Source: The Express Tribune

The heritage of centuries has been wiped out in little more than a year.

Eventually the need to wipe out all traces of unbelief becomes obsessive. At one time, for instance, Egyptian law demanded that any house found to contain a copy of The Apology of al-Kindi (a book containing a polemical dialogue between a Muslim and a Christian) would be demolished along with 40 houses around it.

History being erased In Iraq.

Locals survey the hill of rubble that resulted from the destruction
of the Tomb of Yunus (Jonah), in Mosul, Iraq. The Islamic State
blew up the tomb and mosque on July 24, 2014.

Source: The Independent, 11 December 2014

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